I *think* that in this case (since I suspect this is a translation) "aliens" could be taken as Auslanders/a military force from another country.

Reminds me of a cartoon I saw once. When I was a kid in January there would be ads on TV that all resident aliens had to report their address to the government. The cartoon shows a line of people doing this with a sprinkling of creatures from other planets. (I looked for a smilie of a green space alien, but we don't have that one here.)

Ebor

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"I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks". - C. S. Lewis

It always cracks me up during English liturgy when I hear "protect us from... (something something something)... & the invasion of aliens..." during the litany.

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Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...